A Failed Case in Confronting the Past: Turkey Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Military Coups and Memorandums and Its Report

First time in the political history of Turkey an ad hoc parliamentary investigation committee was formed to review the dark history of the coups and memorandums and laid out its Report in November 2012. Although both the composition and the political conjuncture that the Committee was formed in connection with the wording and the results of the Report require scrutiny on a number of aspects, the main focus would be limited to two preeminent points. This paper is aiming at shedding light firstly, on the principal reasons in technicizing the Committee and its Report by the ruling AKP government in order to solidify its position on both domestic and international political arena. Secondly, the paper is to elucidate how and why the technicization has reflected on the wording and the political results of the Report, for which we strongly argue is a failed example in confronting the past.